2022 Apr 07
Manifest: Thirteen Colonies
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Museums of Science & Culture—Online
Manifest: Thirteen Colonies is a photographic project and journey through the repositories of African American material culture found in libraries, museums, and archives of the original thirteen English colonies. Conceived by photographer Wendel White, this project is a personal, selective reliquary of the remarkable evidence of Black agency and racial oppression stored in public and private collections.
In this program, White will discuss his approach to finding, selecting, and photographing artifacts—from rare singular objects, to more quotidian materials—and highlight their...
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2022 Apr 07
Black Music and the American University: Eileen Southern's Story
4:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Radcliffe Institute—Online
Join us for the second of two one-hour webinars exploring the legacy of Eileen Southern, author of “The Music of Black Americans: A History” and founder and editor of “The Black Perspective in Music.” In 1976, Eileen Southern (1920–2002) became the first African American woman tenured in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). She was central in developing the Department of Afro-American Studies (now African and African American Studies), serving as an early chair, and was on the faculty of the Department of Music, where she taught courses on Black music and Renaissance musical...
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2022 Apr 07
Reimagining Our Radical Roots
(All day)
Location: 
Online or at Harvard Kennedy School, 79 John F. Kennedy St., Cambridge,
Join us for a two-day convening to celebrate the bold life and continuing legacy of William Monroe Trotter- a Harvard University alumnus who advanced the cause of civil rights and social justice. The convening will to introduce attendees to Trotter’s legacy and provide an opportunity for academics, activists and artists to consider how Trotter’s radical activism can address critical issues facing us today, and offer opportunities to hear from distinguished professors and practitioners.
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2022 Apr 06
Exploring Humanity's Technological Origins
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Museums of Science & Culture—Online
Human evolutionary scholars have long assumed that the earliest stone tools were made by members of the genus Homo, approximately 2.4–2.3 million years ago, and that this technological development was directly linked to climate change and the spread of savannah grasslands. In the last decade, fieldwork in West Turkana, Kenya, has revealed evidence of much earlier technological behavior.
Sonia Harmand will discuss the discovery of stone tools in a 3.3-million-year-old archaeological site in Kenya known as Lomekwi 3. She will show how this discovery is reshaping our...
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2022 Apr 05
Art Talk Live: The Secret Life of Ptahshepses Impy
12:30pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums—Online
Join Egyptologist Jen Thum for an engaging look at the results of new research on the tomb relief of Ptahshepses Impy, an Egyptian official. Thum will explore the implications of this research, including possible changes to the display of the relief to indicate missing portions.
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2022 Apr 05
Health Justice in the Americas: The Role of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Law School—Online
The jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights has been profoundly influential in the region since its inception in 1979. Since 2017, the Court has built up case law on the right to health, addressing an array of issues including: access to emergency care, HIV treatment, and health services for prison inmates; informed consent in physical and mental health care; and State duties to regulate private health providers and insurance companies.
This event will be a moderated panel discussion among scholars who have been directly involved as experts in one or more of...
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2022 Apr 04
Information Equity and Freedom Of Speech: U.S. Latino Communities
4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Kennedy School—Online
The prevalence of “fake news” in the media and across social networks has received widespread scrutiny, while the implications of fake news on equity for the U.S. Latino communities has received less attention. U.S. Latino communities have been targeted by misinformation campaigns and are particularly vulnerable to its harms.
This conversation, moderated by C. Yulin Cruz Soto, will explore the intersections between fake news, freedom of speech, and equitable access to information. Speakers include Jorge Ramos, a Mexican-American journalist, author, and Univision news anchor...
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2022 Mar 31
Exploring Egypt’s Middle Kingdom at the Site of Ancient Thebes
6:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Museums of Science & Culture—Online
One of ancient Egypt's high points of cultural, intellectual, and social life was the period referred to as the Middle Kingdom (2030–1650 BCE). The ancient city of Thebes (modern Luxor) was the Egyptian capital during the early stage of this period and the site of multiple funerary temples and tombs. In this lecture, Egyptologist Antonio Morales will discuss an international and multidisciplinary project that is conducting archaeological, historical, and cultural research, as well as conservation work, in Deir el-Bahari and Asasif—two funerary areas at Thebes—to better understand the...
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2022 Mar 29
Celebrating a Sesquicentennial: The Founding of the Arnold Arboretum
2:00pm to 3:00pm
Location: 
Livestreamed or at Weld Hill Research Building, 1300 Centre St., Boston
The Arnold Arboretum was founded on Friday, March 29, 1872. Exactly 150 years later, we invite you to join Lisa Pearson, Head of the Arboretum Library and Archives, for a special sesquicentennial lecture! Pearson will discuss the earliest benefactors of the Arboretum, the events surrounding the founding of the institution, and the busy first two decades during which the infrastructure and living collections were installed on the grounds.
This event will also be livestreamed to YouTube. To sign up for the virtual livestream instead,...
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2022 Mar 27
Amazing Archaeology Fair at Harvard
1:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: 
Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, 11 Divinity Ave. & Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, 6 Divinity Ave., Cambridge
Special In-Person Family Event! Free with Museum Admission; Admissions Reservation Required.
Experience an epic day of archaeological events with the family! Activities are scattered across two museums so explore Native North American, Central American, Egyptian, Mesopotamian and Mediterranean archaeology. Throw a spear with a spear thrower. Talk to student archaeologists who excavate in locations around the world.
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2022 Mar 23
Women on the Frontlines of Revolution
12:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Radcliffe Institute—Online
Erica Chenoweth is a Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at Harvard Radcliffe Institute and the Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at Harvard Kennedy School. In this lecture, Chenoweth will present their ongoing research for their next book, written with Zoe Marks. Titled, “Rebel XX: Women on the Frontlines of Revolution,” the book is about the impact of women’s participation on revolutionary outcomes.
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2022 Mar 23
Women on the Frontlines of Revolution
12:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Radcliffe Institute—Online
Erica Chenoweth is a Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at Harvard Radcliffe Institute and the Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at Harvard Kennedy School. In this lecture, Chenoweth will present their ongoing research for their next book, written with Zoe Marks. Titled, “Rebel XX: Women on the Frontlines of Revolution,” the book is about the impact of women’s participation on revolutionary outcomes.
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2022 Mar 12
Olmsted and Yosemite: Civil War, Abolition, and the National Park Idea
2:30pm to 4:00pm
Location: 
Online or at Weld Hill Research Building, 1300 Centre St., Boston
Just in time for the Arboretum's sesquicentennial and the bicentennial of the birth of pioneering landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, authors Rolf Diamant and Ethan Carr will speak on their recent book, "Olmsted and Yosemite: Civil War, Abolition, and the National Park Idea." They'll offer a new interpretation of how the American park—urban and national—came to figure so prominently in our cultural identity, and why this more complex and inclusive story deserves to be told.
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2022 Mar 08
#BreaktheBias: An International Women’s Day Conversation with Iris Bohnet, Carmen Yulín Cruz, Lori Ehrlich, and Deepa Purushothaman
4:15pm to 5:15pm
Location: 
Harvard Kennedy School—Online
In celebration of International Women’s Day 2022, the Women and Public Policy Program invites you to join in a discussion on how to #BreaktheBias. A panel of leaders and experts will discuss how to raise awareness against gender bias and discrimination and identify how to take action towards equality in politics, the workplace, and beyond.
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2022 Mar 07
A True Social Safety Net or Hanging On By A Thread?
5:30pm to 7:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Kennedy School—Online
M-RCBG Senior Fellow Aparna Mathur will moderate a discussion on the complexity and effectiveness of the US Social Safety Net and whether it provides strong protection against adverse life and market outcomes. Panelists will discuss lessons learned from the pandemic and propose ideas for fixing the broken parts of the system.
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2022 Mar 03
500 Years of Women Authors, Authorizing Themselves
Repeats every week on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday until Fri Mar 11 2022 .
10:00am to 5:00pm
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Location: 
Amy Lowell Room (2nd Floor), Houghton Library, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
Let us introduce you to some of the most infamous female authors you’ve never heard of who carved out cultural spaces for themselves. Our challenge to you: Remember their names. Share their stories. Rewrite history.
Highlights include:
• A copy of Phillis Wheatley's collection of poems autographed by the author

• A mysterious ownership inscription by a medieval woman named "Johanna" in a copy of Jerome's Vitas Patrum

• Mary Wroth's copy of Xenophon's Cyropaedia, bearing her cryptic monogram...
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2022 Feb 28
"A Blessing" and Little Black Library at Harvard Business School: Virtual Author Chat to Celebrate Black History Month
6:00pm to 7:15pm
Location: 
Harvard Business School—Online
HBS's iconic Baker Library is the largest business library in the world—and its collection expanded during the COVID-19 pandemic. For the first time in its 95-year history, Baker brought in non-business books, over 170 titles (to date) organized by Cathy Chukwulebe (MBA 2021) as part of her new non-profit, Little Black Library (LBL).
In response to the racial and social unrest of 2020, Cathy launched Little Black Library to promote Black authors and conversations about the Black experience through books and events at libraries and other partners around the U.S.
When...
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2022 Feb 28
Poetry Reading and Discussion with Camille T. Dungy
4:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Radcliffe Institute—Online
Camille T. Dungy is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Trophic Cascade (Wesleyan University Press, 2017), winner of the Colorado Book Award, and the essay collection Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood and History (W.W. Norton, 2017), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Dungy has also edited anthologies including Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (University of Georgia Press, 2009) and From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate...
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2022 Feb 26
36th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Virtual Brunch
11:00am to 1:00pm
Location: 
Cambridge NAACP—Online
The 36th Annual Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Brunch will be held virtually on Saturday, February 26, 2022 at 11:00am ET. This year's theme is: "Our Beloved Community in Action: What will it take to build an anti-racist city?"
The Cambridge Branch NAACP was among the first to adopt the celebration of Dr. King’s birthday, even before its declaration as a national holiday. For over three decades, our Annual MLK Brunch has honored the legacy of Dr. King and recognized community leaders committed to social justice and public service.
This year, our two...
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2022 Feb 25
Book Talk - The Unimagined Community: Imperialism and Culture in South Vietnam
12:00pm to 1:15pm
Location: 
Harvard University Asia Center—Online
The unimagined community proposes a reexamination of the Vietnam War from a perspective that has been largely excluded from historical accounts of the conflict, that of the South Vietnamese. Challenging the conventional view that the war was a struggle between the Vietnamese people and US imperialism, the study presents a wide-ranging investigation of South Vietnamese culture, from political philosophy and psychological warfare to popular culture and film. Beginning with a genealogy of the concept of a Vietnamese “culture,” as the latter emerged during the colonial...
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